Sentences with phrase «crop yield potential»

Together with overpopulation this will lead to an overexploitation of water resources for agriculture purposes, increased constraints to plant growth and survival and therefore to realizing crop yield potential (Chaves et al., 2002, 2003; Passioura, 2007).

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«Agriculture will have no choice but to be more productive,» Diouf added, noting that increases would need to come mostly from yield growth and improved cropping intensity rather than from farming more land despite the fact that there are still ample land resources with potential for cultivation, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Both Chile and Argentina are reporting lower crop projections, as frost and other weather issues appear to have damaged yield potential in both markets.

Nathan believes there is massive potential for the organic industry to develop, but the more demanding crops and the ability to achieve higher yields is holding the industry back.

Technologies that will be presented at the exhibition include Gamaya, which has been designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial farms, as well as new sorting solutions that have the potential to increase the yield of the maize crop.

Research in Jakenan, Central Java found three drought - tolerant potential rice varieties from IRRI with high - yield potential that are suitable for the second crop — IR68833, IR68836, and S3376e.

So, rice varieties must have higher yield potential and crop management techniques have to help achieve this potential.

A particular advantage of GM is its potential to allow farmers to grow crops with high yields while using less herbicide.

But then there are other components with competing potential outcomes — for instance, will a change of three degrees make crop yields go up or down?

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

«Back in the 80's he saw that this was a potential problem down the road and set up an experiment in Milan, Tennessee, to see how no - till and cover crops can impact cotton yields,» said Chris Boyer, the paper's lead author and a UTIA associate professor of agricultural and resource economics.

They found that both mitigation scenarios should increase yields for all crops compared to the business - as - usual scenario, including cotton and forage, and that the more ambitious scenario has the potential to reduce the number of water - stressed basins.

A 16 - year study was used for robust estimates of the yield potential on organically managed crop land in southern Wisconsin as well as nitrous oxide and methane emissions and soil carbon.

Using USDA soil maps and crop yields, they extrapolated potential carbon dioxide emissions across 580 million 30 - meter by 30 - meter «geospatial cells» in Corn Belt states.

Despite recent concerns that important crops in high - yielding regions have reached their production maximum, the rise in yield potential of new cultivars does not yet level off.

Increased temperatures will speed crop development and thus limit potential yields.

Inflorescence architecture is a key determinant of yield potential in many crops and is patterned by the organization and developmental fate of axillary meristems.

Overall, Johnson said, «These studies have the potential to yield new insights into how critical crop products like corn kernels and tomato fruits are produced.»

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

The researchers say their speed breeding technique has the potential to not only boost yields for farmers, but lead to crops of better quality

Hickey says the speed breeding technique has the potential to not only boost yields for farmers, but lead to crops of better quality.

While climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop yields in many regions, a new study led by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the potential effect of geoengineering on food security.

Still, drones do offer the potential to increase crop yields, Paul says.

So it is much more likely that a warming planet will see reduced crop yields, rather any potential benefit from «CO2 fertilization».

Yet for most major crop - producing countries, including data - rich regions such as the USA and Europe, there are few reliable data on yield potential (Yp) or water - limited yield potential (Yw).

Related I also recently found a useful resource for anyone looking to focus research on places in the world where the gap between current crop yields and potential yields is greatest: The Global Yield Gap Atlas.

While organic agriculture practices result in higher soil organic matter (SOM) contents and, in turn, higher nutrient - and water - supplying potential to crops, transition to organic farming typically involves a lag time of several years in which yields can suffer and input demands increase as rebuilding soil microbial communities compete with crops for nitrogen and other available nutrients (Simmons and Coleman, 2008).

A recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop yield.

the difference between crop yields observed at any given location and the crop's potential yield at the same location given current agricultural practices and technologies.

At lower levels of temperature rise, adaptation has high potential to off - set projected declines in yields for many crops, but this effectiveness is expected to be much lower at higher temperatures.

Climate for its own sake and just leave the CO2 aspect as a predictor of potential crop growth and yield.

While the longer growing season provides the potential for increased crop yields, increases in heat waves, floods, droughts, insects, and weeds will present growing challenges to managing crops, livestock, and forests.

The opposite trend was observed for barley (Hordeum vulgare), wheat (Triticum aestevum), and hay crops, however, suggesting the geographical yield potential has an inconsistent effect on the organic yield gap.

And the US appears to have gotten away with no major losses in potential yields - its major crop - growing regions have yet to see the warming experienced by many other parts of the world.

Efforts to quantify crop yield impacts and mitigation potentials have increased significantly, as has adaptation research.

For example, agricultural carbon removal solutions such as restorative farming approaches hold the potential for increasing crop resilience, reducing water and fertilizer needs, and even enhancing yields.

'' [R] eduction in potential crop yields in most tropical and sub-tropical regions for most projected increases in temperature» and «in most regions in mid-latitudes.»

Hertsgaard lays out other projected and potential impacts: harsher heat waves; stronger storms; more disease and pestilence; increased drought and less frequent but more intense heavier precipitation events; more wildfires; lower crop yields; and mass extinctions.

As far as I can see, one of the things that others have been trying to get at in this thread is that, owing to chronic reductions in crop yield, acute crises from droughts or flooding, and (in the case of ocean acidification) reduced productivity of ocean biomes exploited for food sources, starvation is a potential (if not yet 100 % certain) climate impact, especially in tropical / subtropical regions.

Microbes have the potential to dramatically reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, while improving crop yields and plant health.

Advise on well - informed decisions that allow clients to maximize crop yields and increase profit potential and continue to grow the business in all assigned regions.